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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My argument was that people's readings of stuff like the baby demon subplot are going to be informed by the real-world context in which they live

If you base your opinions on what other people hallucinate, then that's just you putting your baggage on a work, if you can't examine the work on its own terms then you're wasting your own time

Then why in [CW: Nazi shit] the linked thread are the chuds posting pics of Frieren with captions like "the reason I look this cute is because I'm white" and editing the comic to replace the KKK member with bigoted caricatures of Jews, black people, and trans people?

Have you considered that the chuds are mad about the Frieren memes and are coping in the dumbest ways possible? You did really expect the chuds would react positively to all the "demons are white people" memes everyone from TikTok to the massive Frieren Subreddit are posting? You're tailing the chuds and letting them dictate your opinions on a work of fiction

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you base your opinions on what other people hallucinate

When I say "real world context" I mean the culture and history that shaped and continues to shape our existence, not what some fascist losers are saying online.

if you can't examine the work on its own terms then you're wasting your own time

No human being is capable of doing that because creative works don't spring from the ether and neither do we. If you think you can somehow partition your brain to engage with a work completely divorced of everything you've ever known and experienced of the material world, you're fooling yourself.

Have you considered that the chuds are mad about the Frieren memes and are coping in the dumbest ways possible?

Why would they get mad about the memes if they didn't like Frieren to begin with?

You're tailing the chuds and letting them dictate your opinions on a work of fiction

"Many people interpret this work in a fascist manner" is evidence for the claim "this work lends itself to a fascist interpretation."

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